Mixtape self-released by Killah Priest composed by twenty tracks, devoid of production credits and also cleared of known guests (Rasul Allah aka G/Ciples and Killah Priest's son Starkim), and maybe that's for the best. Music is decent when it's good, with some random honest rhythm, while the lyrics are abstract.
The production is bland, while from a thematic point of view, Priest indulges himself as usual by touching on themes such as murders, death, gangsterism, thugging, religion, biblical and Egyptian references, metaphysics, boasting, crime, drugs, street stories, drug stories and socio-conscious and socio-political inserts. Most of his lyrics aren't understandable and don't seem to make precise logical sense. Among the few passages that stand out clearly, in "Just Some Shit Off the Top", the author dedicates half a verse to DC Comics superheroes in which the interpreter himself suggests that he's one of them. On track number eleven, "Sanskit", Killah Priest looks like he's sitting interviewed at tv show "Belve".
The most interesting song is certainly "Never Existed": here, Killah Priest reflects on his career in the rap industry and he ironically claims to have never existed and that he's not a real person, but a fictional character born from RZA and GZA's ideas to strengthen the Wu brand. In support of this imaginative thesis, the author implies that the masterpiece "Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth (B.I.B.L.E.)" from The Genius' most famous album is realized and written by the Wu-Tang Clan emcee and not by him, he mentions his relationship with Amil, the Roc-A-Fella rapper, and as further proof of his "non-existence", he sarcastically states that he's not present in the cover of his group Sunz of Man's album "Saviorz Day" (2002), when he had left the group at the time.
In the same passage, when the boy says "I judge wisely between two pillars of ivory" he's referring to his opening lines recited in GZA's "4th Chambers" where Killah Priest opened with the same words, having the second verse between Ghostface Killah's and RZA's in a sensational posse track from GZA's second studio album, the legendary "Liquid Swords" (1995).
Returning to the tape as a whole, it's fine it seems to be born with the intention of keeping the artist's name warm after the quite negative response received from the previous LP "Elizabeth". Not essential for the casual listener and "Rocket to Nebula" fans, even completists can do without it. 6/10.
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